To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I really was thinking it was on the decline, steadily on the decline. From one day they're $2.39 another they're $2.43 and tomorrow, who knows what it will be.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.